Cisco in the year of 2014:Ravi Namboori
- ravinambooricisco
- Dec 30, 2014
- 2 min read
It was a mixed year for the networking behemoth Cisco Systems, Inc., which is headquartered in San Jose, California.
This was the company’s 30th year in operations. In January, the CES conference saw the company unveiling its plans to provide cloud-based TV offerings. This is a part of its Videoscape strategy.
The next month, February, saw the company battle a memory malfunctioning in its switches. This, in turn, adversely affected Cisco’s second-quarter revenues.
In the month of March, it announced its plans to invest $1 billion in order to expand its cloud markets, which involved setting up of a worldwide Intercloud of interoperable cloud service networks, which would be interconnected.
In April, it announced plans to introduce its OpFlex SDN policy protocol. This said to be a southbound policy language, whose intent is to convey to switches of the service requirements of applications so that it enables switches make configuration and forwarding judgments depending on them.
The month of May saw Cisco observe CiscoLive user conference’s 25th anniversary.
The month of June witnessed Cisco acquiring the Tail-f to bolster its cloud orchestration resources, which could let the company enter into SDN of AT&T. This paid off as Cisco became AT&T’s Domain 2.0 vendor later in the month of December.
Its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) components packaging and pricing were made public in July. The company also started shipping its ACI controllers in the same month.
Laying off of Cisco’s six thousand staff brought the company into the news in the month of August. This was a fallout of its unimpressive revenues for its fourth-quarter and the full year 2014.
This changed in September as the company scaled up its UCS server offerings. It saw modular servers sharing disaggregated resources and developing of a UCS Mini for deployments of clouds of up to maximum of 15 servers.
September was the month of its restructuring that saw five senior vice presidents resign, while two senior managers belonging to the data center and OpenStack departments quit.
In October, Cisco decided to cut back its involvement in the VCE project, which was a joint venture with VMware and EMC as it did not gain much from it. This month also saw it become a part of the Open Compute Project, an initiative on the part of the social networking company Facebook to open source hardware in switches and servers.
November saw the OpenSOC security framework being open sourced by Cisco. This was an endeavor to tap big data analytics to battle data loss.
The month of December saw Cisco filing a suit against Arista, a software defined networking enterprise, and launching of data analytics endeavor to gear up for the Internet of Everything.
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